{"id":79236,"date":"2018-06-02T13:22:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T20:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/scientists-are-teaching-ai-to-do-household-chores"},"modified":"2018-06-02T13:22:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T20:22:30","slug":"scientists-are-teaching-ai-to-do-household-chores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/scientists-are-teaching-ai-to-do-household-chores","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Are Teaching AI to do Household Chores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qAMJvKpyPP4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Someday, AI robot assistants might be able to make you a coffee after watching you do it.<\/p>\n<p>MIT CSAIL<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from MIT\u2019s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the University of Toronto are teaching AI to do household chore using a Sims inspired virtual simulator. While household chores are dreary, if not particularly complex for humans, for AI, making a cup of coffee or turning on the toaster is a bit more involved. Watching TV from the sofa, for instance, requires an AI to break the task down to specific steps, like: \u201cwalk to the TV,\u201d \u201cswitch on the TV,\u201d \u201cwalk to the sofa,\u201d and \u201csit on the sofa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/robots\/a21058742\/scientists-are-teaching-ai-to-do-household-chores\/\">https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/robots\/a21058742...ld-chores\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someday, AI robot assistants might be able to make you a coffee after watching you do it. MIT CSAIL Researchers from MIT\u2019s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the University of Toronto are teaching AI to do household chore using a Sims inspired virtual simulator. While household chores are dreary, if not particularly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}